15. But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort, as it were putting you in mind: because of the grace which is given me from God.
16. That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles; sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.
17. I have therefore glory in Christ Jesus towards God.
18. For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,